The Lexington Police Department will be conducting several Public Safety Checkpoints on Friday, within the Town of Lexington, announced LPD Chief Terrance Green. Officers will be conducting the Public Safety Checkpoint in response to collision incidents, Citizen Traffic Complaints, and previous enforcement in this area focused on speeding and unsafe driving practices. Officers will be […]

The South Carolina State Museum is offering one dollar admission to guests this Sunday, Mar. 1. Admission price includes entry to SCSM’s four floors of gallery space along with the Boeing Observatory. Additional attractions like the museum’s Sherlock Holmes exhibit, planetarium and 4-D theater will remain at regular price. SCSM’s one-dollar admission is offered on […]

Taste on the River had its best turnout ever, Tuesday night at Stone River. It was the fourth annual fundraiser for the West Columbia Beautification Foundation. Cars filled the spaces at the recently completed Carrway Park, across from the Riverwalk. Others parked in the city parking garage that has a Court Avenue entrance at the […]

Lexington County Sheriff’s Deputies were searching for a man and woman after the couple never returned to their assisted living facility Tuesday night. But the couple has been found safe, in Horry County. Ronald and Mary Denny have memory issues and take daily medication for other conditions.

A 17-year-old former Gilbert High School student has been charged in connection to school threats posted on a Lexington School District One employee’s Facebook account. The former student, whose name will not be released because he’s under the age of 18, is charged with two counts of second-degree burglary and one count of threatening a […]

Savage Craft Ale Works is charting, with photos, the progress of the building of its brewery on Center Street in West Columbia. The project includes the renovation of the historic New Brookland Jail. According to the Savage Craft Ale Works Facebook page, the one-story brick building with barred windows and its parapeted or “false front” […]

An incident on I-20 West in Richland County at the 66.5 mile marker blocked two lanes Tuesday morning. A tractor-trailer jackknifed. It was a no- injury crash, but delays were expected. It occurred between Highway 321 and the malfunction junction